As the new league year is underway, along with a few deals so far in free agency for the Vikings, and the NFL Draft just over a month away, it makes sense to take a look at the Vikings roster, where it is good, bad, and mediocre, and where realistic opportunities to improve it may be available.
The Vikings, along with most NFL teams, don’t have a lot of salary cap space to work with, after an unprecedented reduction in the NFL salary cap last year, so following the Cousins’ extension, which put them about even with the 2022 salary cap, every addition needs to be offset with a reduction elsewhere, whether through a contract restructure or release.